coming up in the next fifteen minutes a tense wait in nigeria as voters brace for the election results church services across the country did it case. whatever the outcome will be. and will it be more. sinegal the fifty four year old is seeking a second presidential to. go voters give it to him. then what it is say we'll find out why south african talk show hosts are the no worse if the twitter sphere on fire when you spoke. at the. i'm christine when the welcome to the program i'm glad you are today in votes being counted off to nigeria's election finally leaves a place at the weekend so wolf muhammadu buhari stage a comeback or will his main challenger. pull the rug from under his feet well

there's not a whole lot of polling data available but analysts have said it's going to be a close contest at least thirty five people are said to have died in violence in the run up to the election but the african union sais the poll was generally peaceful now that's important because elections in nigeria can be deadly in two thousand and eleven more than eight hundred people died in post-election protests in the north wind blow hard it was defeated so it's no surprise prayers for peace are being held in church services all over the country as nigerians wait for the result this report now from africa's funny for cha. there's only one topic on people's minds this pentecostal church the election that also goes for the pastor.

just to crouch to refrain from violence as a member of the congregation twenty five year old is grateful that things here remain peaceful unlike in other parts of nigeria. during service it's irrelevant who has voted for whom it's after church when the discussion moves beyond that. there are more than fourteen million you were just supporters this time around compared to twenty fifteen and many of them have voted for the very first time they want to bring about change young people young thirty years old like you danielle you're one of the people who voted for the first time what kind of change and see change policies that youths young people want to see changes that economy quite quickly daniels' friends begin

a heated debate about the future of the economy have been put in handicapped we don't even want to move there is no. want to move to the other side. those friends of danios who received a voter's card on time voted for a car a challenger to incumbent president bihari not because they believe things will change overnight but because they see a different administration is key for they use to clean power one day we're no longer waiting for the government young people and young people treated and. determined right now. to get what they want to get. people under thirty already in the majority in nigeria they know that the population grows young people will have more power if they actually use it to hold politic. accountable that

process has just started as people like daniel and meter and their friends are getting older. ok now sinegal also how did election this weekend in the country is now awaiting the official results just like nigeria senegal is a young country seventy percent of the population is under the age of thirty and those young people yield considerable power when it comes to politics so failing to deliver for the young generation in senegal is a risky tax hike for any politician seeking to stay in power seven years ago macky sall was propelled to victory by a vibrant youth movement that was insistent on sweeping away the old god that movement discord yamaha which means we're fed up in english now the people that powered that movement back for this election and they have a new message take a listen. to. part.

with. me. all right i'm now joined by one of the activists from the young amal movement he is also a member of the band kitty and they released a song that we've just been listening to chat it's great to have you on the news africa welcome your soul was a hit before the election when one takes a look at you tube over a million views so you're pretty influential in senegal what was your message to young people this time round. yeah thank you for inviting me i mean that was really porton for us to do this kind of song before the election because we knew that much sadder would ask for a second round for a second term and then sort of second term he will he has to say ok this is what i achieved during the seven years of my source and then we knew that he got

a lot of promises and nothing was true so in that song particular we told him ok you promised you would do five years instead of seven that was that he said you will have under twenty five minister that was a lie you said that your your brother would not be involved in the political affairs was found out or even your family and the family of your wife are having new stuff for this and so he did much you were doing a summary of the seven years of my message to the people and for them to be aware before the election to do not vote for him ok so it's interesting because you know you all movement was really credited for helping not to sell come to power you have since turned your back on him if this is some of the reasons why and what are you hoping for young people for senegal what is the message that you want to them now which candidate are you now endorsing. yeah i once said that it would help much still to come in the power i would say that we fought against

a lot and then much of our challenger capitalize the fact that we will rule fighting against that was the case so the hope is the real change africa is struggling with what we call the type of politician that without much. about the countries they have a profit on the power of the rich we all know that much is a toy is a pure science look at what's happening in our country now we can belong to two trends companies are much nationalist here so we need something fresh and new we need the definitive revolution i want you to have a listen because our correspondent has been talking to people on the streets of senegal what is that unction listen to one woman who spoke to us seven isn't so much a set of like for you to comment on that second a sense of sort on him this vision we want young people to be given more responsibility we are sick of being ignored older people always seems to be given priority here it's time that the needs of the younger generation are also

recognised by this country's political system and the city ok so calling for young people not to be ignored what is your response to this very quickly as we close this interview i don't think that you're going to listen to the young people now anymore they really you listen to the people young people are getting different this year like last election like yesterday your young people are showing that they really for change and i don't agree with the fact that people didn't we nobody listened to us yet people are listening to a very well because we are the majority of the country so definitely we want to speak of the change and that's what we demand that's why election people like you do not vote for much thought that all right is in my duty all right. thank you so much coming to us from the from the young a mass movement and the clergy band thank you. thank you for you've earned their cue shout now it was nice for diversity on sunday at the oscars thanks unpause to

the groundbreaking model black have now ruthie kasha was on it with the best costume design oscar wilde head of bleach accepted a golden statue for her production design work on the same movie both women were the first black women in the category now black panther won a third oscar for original school it was the first superhero movie ever nominated for best picture and became a cultural touchstone for its depiction of a superhero of african descent after a serial east a year ago it's taken a look. at. the world. in the world on the. i can't. i.

i. i get so little show host trivino was chosen to introduce black have the as one of the best picture nominees at the oscars and was it for the praise for what was described as he's powerful speech about africa now the daily show host who's from johannesburg chose to include a close a phrase in he's in straight let's have a listen. if you don't want to work on the other cheek on the final beach. if you don't mind being on the great suffering. by our front yard which may be in times like the one we fight you go then when we try to find a job this is not a picture nominee. again so what many people didn't realize was that trevor noah offered a completely misleading translation off the phrase what he actually said was why

people don't know i'm lying has sparked a huge social media reaction this accorded one of the funniest stunts ever pulled off at the oscars and the other rights respects to travel you know of for his joke to south africans that's of course with is an official language and this tweets credits trivino for putting black history month back on track a reference there to the african-american actor jesse small a who allegedly paid to have a bogus racist attack staged against him and stand accused of damage and race relations in the u.s. at a particularly sensitive time ok so we leave you now with pictures of one of africa's veteran jazz singers that's dorothy. zimbabwean born south african passed away this week and she was free but the music of so-called antidotes will live on just as for the legacy and not really believe this but there on my campus iconic song that's a passage she wrote that the next time i put out the song.